Plautilla, Rome mint, 202 AD.,
Denarius (18-19 mm / 3,14 g), silver, axis about medal alignment ↑↑ (ca. 20°),
Obv.: PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE , her draped bust right, hair waved and caught back behind.
Rev.: CONCORDIAE AETERNAE , Plautilla, draped and on the left, and Caracalla, togate and on the right, standing facing each other and clasping their right hands.
RIC IV.1, 361 ; BMC 235, 403 ; Coh. 10 ; RSC 10.A .
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Caracalla married the daughter of Praetorian prefect Plautianus in 202 at the request of her father. Caracalla did not get along with his wife. The `eternal unity´ of the legend of the reverse of the coins struck on the occasion of the wedding did not exist.
When the Emperorss returned from the East during the summer of 202, Severus married his eldest son to Fulvia Plautilla, the daughter of his friend Plautian. This denarius commemorating the marriage of Caracalla and Plautille was struck during a special issue which succeeded the fourteenth issue. Coinage in the name of Plautille ceased in 205, after the so-called Plautian affair: the friend of the emperor, and father of Plautilla, conspired against Caracalla. Severus had him executed and Plautilla was exiled to the Lipari Islands. Caracalla had her executed as soon as Severus died.
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